How to use Statistica's Monitoring and Alerting Server with an IQC analysis Configuration ?

How to use Statistica's Monitoring and Alerting Server with an IQC analysis Configuration ?

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Article ID: KB0070299

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Products Versions
Spotfire Statistica 14.0 and higher

Description

How does Monitoring and Alerting system work and is there an example?

Prerequisites
1.  Create a data connection and a data configuration with the steps in this knowledge base article:   https://support.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-create-data-configurations-for-Statistica-spreadsheets
2.  Create an IQC Chart in Statistica Enterprise by following these steps in this knowledge base article:   https://support.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-create-an-IQC-Chart-in-Statistica-Enterprise

Environment

Windows operating systems only.

Resolution

Create the Taskset

1.  Open Statistica Enterprise Manager

2.  Go to the Monitoring and Alerting Server icon, right-click on Server Task Sets, and select "New taskset" as shown below and attach to a system view folder of choice. Alternatively, you may select a system folder of choice and choose "New Taskset". 

Create new taskset

3.  Name the taskset  as per your choice. For this example, we are calling it "Cyclone".

Name Taskset Cyclone


4.  Click the "Add Task" button and select the analysis of choice (Using cyclone for this example, that was created via article : https://support.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-create-an-IQC-Chart-in-Statistica-Enterprise ) :

Add analysis as task

5.  Select to check alarms for both characteristics:

Select characteristics to alarm


6.  Click "View/Edit Alarm Options" button, select "Sample out of control", and click the "Commit" button.  Enter a change reason, if enabled:

Edit Alarms

7.  Go back to the Cyclone taskset and click the "Attach..." button.  Attach to the System View folder of choice and click "Commit" button. You can skip this step if you chose the alternate method of choosing the folder in Step 2 above. 

Attach system view folder

9.  Add an Alarm Rule and configure to execute to send an email if any conditions are met:

Alarm Rule configuration

10.  Go to Options to "Set Alarms and rules", and add Admin email address  In this example, we uncheck both "Use alarms not older than:..." and "Process alarm rules against new alarms only".  Finally, click "Commit" button:

Set Alarms and rules and add admin email address

Create an Alarm Dashboard

1.  Right-click on Dashboard Alarm Admin, select "New Alarm Dashboard". Alternatively, you may select a system folder of choice and choose "New Alarm Dashboard"

New Alarm Dashboard

2.  Name the Alarm Dashboard of your choice. In this example, we are naming it "Cyclone":

Name Alarm Dashboard

3.  Add a row to the dashboard:

Configure alarm dashboard

4. Select the dashboard and click the "Attach..." button. Attach to the System View folder of choice.  You may skip doing this if you chose to create a dashboard under a system view folder in Step 1.  

5. Define Access permissions, and click "Commit" button as shown below

System view folder attachment







Test Taskset

1. Select the Alarm Dashboard to test

2.  Right-click on the taskset and select "Submit Taskset":

Test Taskset

3.  The dashboard will show as Red when samples are out of control:

Dashboards show alarming

4.  An email will be sent with the alarm information provided the SMTP information is configured as detailed in :  https://support.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-configure-Enterprise-manager-for-alarm-emails-and-Job-emails 

Email when alarming

 

Issue/Introduction

This knowledge base article details the steps to setup up a taskset, and an alarm dashboard with sample data. It contains an example of setting up Statistica's Monitoring and Alerting Server (MAS) for alerts on IQC (Interactive Quality Control) Analysis configuration defined in Statistica

Additional Information

https://support.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-create-data-configurations-for-Statistica-spreadsheets
https://support.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-create-an-IQC-Chart-in-Statistica-Enterprise
https://support.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-configure-Enterprise-manager-for-alarm-emails-and-Job-emails